Head cases : Julia Kristeva on philosophy and art in depressed times /
Miller, Elaine P.,1962-
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-232) and index.
Introduction: Losing our heads -- Kristeva and Benjamin: melancholy and the allegorical imagination -- Kenotic art: negativity, iconoclasm, inscription -- To be and remain foreign: tarrying with L'inquietante etrangete alongside Arendt and Kafka -- Sublimating maman: experience, time, and the re-erotization of existence in Kristeva's reading of Marcel Proust -- The "Orestes Complex": thinking hatred, forgiveness, Greek tragedy, and the Cinema of the "thought specular" with Hegel, Freud, and Klein -- Conclusion: forging a head.
Kristeva, Julia, 1941-
Psychoanalysis and the arts.